Most Gracious Sovereign,
I beg leave to approach Your Royal Person with an humble Offering,
glean'd from long acquaintance with Your Majesty's subjects. A Work,
which owes it's Rise, it's Progress, and Completion to this Source,
is hence with all Humility proffered to Your Sacred Majesty. That
Providence may long preserve the blessings of Your Reign to this
Profession and Nation, is the constant prayer of,
May it please Your Majesty,